Titanium-Gold Alloy! (paging SEF)

[demoncase]

https://futurism.com/physicists-combine ... -strength/

Titanium-3 alloy has been synthesized and is up to 4x harder than normal titanium*

It's an alloy of gold and titanium: so even without any word on edge retention it's going to be a perfect economy blade material for a low-cost folder...perhaps a future replacement for LC200 due to the high corrosion resistance :D

This is clearly the future of knife making right here.

*worryingly the article flip-flops between strength and hardness so add a pinch of salt to all and any claims.

[awa54]

I'm still holding out for Adamantium

[Bloke]

I'm still holding out for Adamantium

I'm holding out for one of the ones SEF writes about ... nano particle no inertia type thing.

[awa54]

I'm still holding out for Adamantium

I'm holding out for one of the ones SEF writes about ... nano particle no inertia type thing.

you mean a mono-molecular filament knife, supported by an energy absorptive field?

Got one already! it's great, but the radiation leaks are killing me (literally) :D

[Doc Dan]

I think it would be nice if we could find a source for this higher temperature Ti-3 and Spyderco would make us a mule out of it.

[Evil D]

If hardness were all that mattered we would all be carrying ceramic blades.

[demoncase]

If hardness were all that mattered we would all be carrying ceramic blades.

Ah yes, but the paper flips between hardness and toughness like a politician talking about tax evasion and tax avoidance..... So maybe it's harder and stronger. And washes whiter with a lasting minty freshness too I shouldn't wonder :D

[SpyderEdgeForever]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

*GASPS like Doc Brown from Back to the Future* THEY HAVE MADE TRITANIUM! Titanium 3 = TRI titanium.

I understand some reservations when they mix terms but this is EXCELLENT! Thank you DC for finding this!

[cELLiBAIt]

I'm still holding out for Adamantium

?!

[SpyderEdgeForever]

Adamantium is nothing compared to SuperStringium :) Bonded woven subquantum super strings. Make any 3d pattern from sheets of them (branes). A knife made of pure bonded branes (for membranes) would be made of pure space itself. It would slice through any weaker-bonded pieces of space (atoms) like they were not there. Imagine the "Spyderco 4000 AD Pacific Atlantic Salt" made of branes.

[Midnightrider]

I'm still holding out for Adamantium

If you really want to hold out for something, hold out for unobtanium like everybody else does